Abstract

This book, which is based on the doctoral dissertation of Monika Bielińska, investigates the outer texts of several monolingual learners' dictionaries for German as a foreign language. She maintains that German learners' dictionaries constitute a fairly young addition to German lexicography, the first one only having been published in 1993 by Langenscheidt (1993). This is in stark contrast to countries such as France and England, where the publication of learners' dictionaries has long been established.